Join us for this free program on Zoom on Wednesday March 16 at 7 PM.

Sarah K. Hermans grew up in Millerton, NY, and has resided in Poughkeepsie and Pine Plains. Her grandmother, Clara Weller Losee, was a dedicated local and family historian for the towns of Red Hook, Milan, and Northeast.

In 2010 an old, stained muslin sheet made of 42 blocks sewn together, many covered in embroidered names, was passed down through five generations of the Hermans family (originally from Academy Hill Road in the hamlet of Jackson Corners). Sarah spent a decade researching the quilt, the 260 names of local people from Milan, Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Pine Plains, Livingston, Clermont, and Ancram embroidered on it, and the world of Northern Dutchess and Southern Columbia Counties in 1903 when the “simple” life was coming to an end.

Sarah is a volunteer with Historic Red Hook and maintains the local history blog, holdernewt.com.

Books can be purchased through Oblong Books in person or online here.